Hike to Bumpass Hell - Part 1

With Jeffery on his own adventure, I decided that his suggestion of Mt. Lassen was appealing, so yesterday I left Tobin later than I'd wished, at 5:10 a.m., to drive the 2 hours so that I'd beat the heat of the day on the hike to Bumpass Hell.  I stopped to take photos, so I didn't begin hiking until 7:45, but it was in the upper 50-degrees, very pleasant for my jaunt.  Coming back was a lot hotter, and much more crowded.
It's taken me all day to get this far, so I'm going to publish my adventure in two parts.

I saw the sunrise!  It came up as I drove along the west shore of Lake Almanor

Coming into Child's Meadows.  I don't know what peak I'm looking at.

This barn falls a little more each time we come along this road, which isn't that often, really.

There's Mt. Lassen!  I'm still a half hour from it, due to the winding roads I must travel.

The "new" Lodge at the south end of Lassen National Park.

I love this shaped peak in the morning sunlight.

I'm pretty sure the left-side moutain is Brokeoff

Looking from the parking lot sort of towards where I'm heading, and out into the valley to the south-west

Shadow-selfie to prove I'm really there.

my destination

loved these trees in the morning light

Mt. Lassen Peak with Helen Lake in front of it.

Some sections have trees along the trail

Then there are the rocky open areas, which will get hot when the sun arrives

I am standing at the bottom of this rubble pile, looking up, no tricks; straight up; and I don't know how this was created.

Loved these trees, growing like mushrooms.

Grouse?  Ptarmigan?

There it is!  Almost there.  You can just see it.

I'll be back again soon, with much strange beauty to show you.